RE: suggestions on a good firewall

Well after going through this thread of messages I order openBSD to give it a shot...if another RHCE is recommending it over iptables...well...there's no harm in branching out?

Jon Pastore RHCE, President
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From: David Moisan [mailto:dmoisan@davidmoisan.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 5:47 PM
To: David Ellis; security-basics@securityfocus.com Subject: RE: suggestions on a good firewall

At 03:30 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, David Ellis wrote:
>Microsoft have pretty good OS's etc. But they are far from a security
No OS vendor is, by that, except perhaps BSD.

>And also they have ports open by default on their firewall like port 88

>for Kerberos. Just throw netcat into the mix listening on port 88 and
>forwarding to port 139. Good bye network!
Neither open here.

David Moisan, N1KGH ARES/SKYWARN dmoisan@davidmoisan.org Invisible Disability:
http://www.davidmoisan.org/invisible_disability.html ATS-909 FAQ: http://www.davidmoisan.org/radio/sangean/ats909faq.html

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